Surgical stapling devices manufacturing · Illinois

Oberg Medical Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oberg Medical Chicago runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surgical stapling devices manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Oberg Medical Chicago: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Surgical stapling devices manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oberg Medical Chicago safety composite

Oberg Medical Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2021→2023

Oberg Medical Chicago injury rate improved

Oberg Medical Chicago's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.1 in 2021 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #28/30
  • PHOTO Kelcourt Plastics
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kelcourt Plastics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oberg Medical Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Oberg Medical Chicago averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Surgical stapling devices manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Oberg Medical Chicago TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Oberg Medical Chicago falls in its industry

741 Surgical stapling devices manu establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 30 Surgical stapling devices manu employers in Illinois.

Oberg Medical Chicago (114 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Oberg Medical Chicago
Oberg Medical Chicago (114 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Oberg Medical Chicago has fewer employees than the Surgical stapling devices manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 2.4 1.8 4 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 5 0 0
2021 4.1 4.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · IL · Chicago

741 Surgical stapling devices manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kelcourt Plastics 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health Santa Clara 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. Barnes Canyon 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freudenberg Medical 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyffels Hybrids Production 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Collinsville Office 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Pioneer Park 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Hotel Effie Sandestin 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Carcel & G Construction, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Emmett's Excavation, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dattco - Woodstock 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Luis Obispo Ca Plant 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txdsd - Dallas (Airport) Eww 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE ISD #700 Elementary School 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coeur D'Alene #101 114 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.